Lee: Obama 'sophomoric' to GOP

Sen. Mike Lee said Thursday that President Barack Obama engaged in a “sophomoric” exchange with Republican lawmakers when he met with them earlier in the day, during which GOP Senators had to restrain themselves from “calling him out on it.”

“One of my favorite moments was when one of my colleagues stood up and said, ‘You know, Mr. President, it’s not all that helpful to have you publicly questioning our motives, publicly accusing us of wanting to eviscerate Medicaid, for example, simply because we want to call for reform or block grants,’” Lee (R-Utah) told Fox News host Greta Van Susteren.

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“And his answer was?” Van Susteren asked.

“[He said,] ‘I don’t speak nearly as badly about you as some of you do about me,’” Lee said.

Van Susteren said the response sounded like something from “a school yard.”

“It struck me as somewhat sophomoric,” Lee said. “But the point is I don’t see a lot of Republicans, especially Senate Republicans, standing up and openly questioning the president’s motives from the standpoint of not caring about people.”

Lee later added: “A lot of us had to restrain ourselves from raising our hand at that moment or calling him out on it.”

As for the overall tone of the meeting, Lee said that it was like “a press conference without the press” for Obama.